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Saturday, July 20, 2013

Playing Tyler Book Review - Summer Reading Road Trip Stop # 7

Stop #7

When is a game not a game?

Tyler
MacCandless can’t focus, even when he takes his medication. He can’t
focus on school, on his future, on a book, on much of anything other
than taking care of his older brother, Brandon, who’s in rehab for
heroin abuse… again.

Tyler’s dad is dead and his mom has mentally
checked out. The only person he can really count on is his Civilian Air
Patrol Mentor, Rick. The one thing in life it seems he doesn’t suck at
is playing video games and, well, thats probably not going to get him
into college.

Just when it seems like his future is on a
collision course with a life sentence at McDonald’s, Rick asks him to
test a video game. If his score’s high enough, it could earn him a place
in flight school and win him the future he was certain that he could
never have. And when he falls in love with the game’s designer, the
legendary gamer Ani, Tyler thinks his life might finally be turning
around.

That is, until Brandon goes MIA from rehab and Tyler and
Ani discover that the game is more than it seems. Now Tyler will have to
figure out what’s really going on in time to save his brother… and
prevent his own future from going down in flames.

I received
a free copy of this novel in exchange for my honest review.Tyler MacCandless has ADHD, even at the best
of times he has trouble focusing.He
doesn’t have anyone he can count on except his mentor, Rick.Ani is a gaming genius.Not only does she play, she also creates
them.She gets hired to create a flight
simulation program to train future pilots.This is how she meets Beta Tester Tyler.This is most likely Tyler’s last chance at getting into flight school,
so he gives it his all.This is when his
troubles really begin.

Playing
Tyler came across as a modern day war games.I loved the way how realistic the relationship between Tyler and Ani
were.This book was a suspenseful
mystery, one I enjoyed thoroughly.I
also loved how they discussed the morality and ethics of what was really going
on.Playing Tyler is a brilliantly
written first novel, and I look forward to more from this author!

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